In the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1860), after the British and French allied forces captured Beijing, they occupied Yuanmingyuan on10.6. China's defenders were outnumbered, and Wenfeng, the chief minister of Yuanmingyuan, committed suicide by throwing himself into Fuhai. Chang Ai, who lived in the garden, was scared to death. Two days after the British and French allied forces looted, they marched into the city. 65438+1October1/British troops sent 1200 cavalry and an infantry regiment robbed Yuanmingyuan again. James, the British plenipotentiary? Bruce put the burning of Yuanmingyuan on the agenda and premise on the pretext that the Qing government imprisoned Parkes and others in Yuanmingyuan. 10 year 10 month 18 day, 3500 British troops rushed into Yuanmingyuan and set fire to it. The fire didn't go out for three days, and the Yuanmingyuan and its nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were all burned into ruins. Nearly 300 eunuchs, ladies-in-waiting and craftsmen were buried in the fire of Anyou Palace.
Second, when the Qing court fled to Shaanxi, the people took out most of the antique decorations in Yuanmingyuan and looted them.
Everything that can be used as building materials in Yuanmingyuan ruins, from square bricks, tiles, wall bricks and stone strips on the ground to wooden nails, stakes and copper pipes underground, has been collected and pulled intermittently for more than 20 years. Later generations called this the Yuanmingyuan fire robbery? Stone robbery? .
After 19 17, many farmers near Yuanmingyuan began to live in the garden. Whether they want to build houses or grow rice, they will dig mountains and fill lakes. In this way, the mountain water system of Yuanmingyuan was completely destroyed, and Yuanmingyuan finally became what it is today, leaving us with infinite space for daydreaming and sighing.
Hugo wrote in 186 1:? One day, two robbers broke into Yuanmingyuan, one robbed and the other set fire to it. It seems that after winning, you can start stealing? Two winners, one full of pockets, visible, and the other full of boxes. They returned to Europe arm in arm with a smile. ? Two robbers who will be punished by history, one is France and the other is Britain. ? This passage represents the voice of millions of upright people.